Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pos pn] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you 'll not laugh your way out of this one . |
| 2 | In the event of a fire , we could not make our way out . |
| 3 | When Val was gone , Roland realised , with a shock like a religious conversion , that he did not want their way of life to go on . |
| 4 | Army personnel did not know their way around London and would need police escorts . |
| 5 | COMPANIES can not buy their way into these pages by sending free gifts to the editor . |
| 6 | She does not look my way . |
| 7 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 8 | The clerk was instructed to inform Mr. Johnson however that the guardians ‘ did not see their way to continuing supplying champagne ’ . |
| 9 | Amelia McLean also pointed out that skill was at stake : " fortunately , the majority of women workers can not see their way to join that union , as they claim to be skilled workers " . |
| 10 | Small builders can not see their way to take on many trainees . |
| 11 | As you may remember when the flood bank was built the local residents were very disappointed that Lancashire County Council could not see their way to install a footway along or beside the flood bank . |
| 12 | You feel you have tried all ways , listened to advice , thought about your life but still can not see your way clear . |
| 13 | If you can not see your way to doing this , I regret that I shall have to suggest to the Parish Council that they consider moving this account to another bank . |
| 14 | The light , clearing and brightening to the pure pale gold of primroses where its slanting rays could reach , still left the gatehouse and the court within the gates in shadow , and Tutilo kept his eyes on the cobbles and trod carefully , as though he could not see his way clearly . |
| 15 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 16 | Mr Callaghan 's famous speech to the 1976 Labour party conference ( subsequently cited in many Conservative party publications ) admitted that governments could not spend their way into full employment ; that way only led to more inflation and eventually more unemployment . |
| 17 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 18 | In these cases , the individual can not have his way . |
| 19 | He told delegates : ‘ After all the Tories have taken , the end result is a country which can not pay its way , which lives on tick and with the highest interest rates of the advanced world . |
| 20 | When things do not go his way , he calls the effort a failure . |
| 21 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 22 | They declared almost unanimously that it would not change their way of life , which makes one wonder what was so attractive about that way of life ( in fact , nearly all pools winners were forced to move , through the envy of neighbours ) . |
| 23 | She had hoped even more confidently that certain things would not come her way . |
| 24 | Luckily for the couple , the Battalions did not come their way . |
| 25 | He had his house in Spain , his ease , his investments ; when immediate success did not come his way , it led to disaffection . |
| 26 | He would have been quite happy to have been employed as a production manager an or as an assistant director of which he was first class but the work did not come his way . |
| 27 | ‘ One example is gay and lesbian organisations and , though I would not persecute these people , I can not support their way of life as one to be promoted and developed . ’ |
| 28 | If it does not get its way , the Democratic Platform has threatened to leave the party , abandoning it to conservatives like Mr Yegor Ligachev , who has renewed his strident criticism of Mr Gorbachev . |
| 29 | She compromised with China in agreeing to the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and with the Zimbabwean nationalists over the Rhodesian negotiations , when it became clear that she could not get her way . |
| 30 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |